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U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269

[U+7268]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+726A]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
8 strokes
Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 93, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mɯd): semantic + phonetic (OC *mɯd).

Etymology[edit]

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (grain; seed; lineage) (STEDT), whence Tibetan འབྲུ ('bru, seed; grain), Jingpho amyu (ə myú, kind; sort), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, seed).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Wu
  • Note:
    • 5veq - literary;
    • 5meq - vernacular, used in 物事.
  • Xiang

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
    Harbin /u⁵³/
    Tianjin /u⁵³/
    Jinan /u²¹/
    Qingdao /vu⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
    Xi'an /vo²¹/
    Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /vu¹³/
    Lanzhou /və¹³/
    Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
    Wuhan /u²¹³/
    Chengdu /u³¹/
    Guiyang /u²¹/
    Kunming /u³¹/
    Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
    Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
    Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
    Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
    Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
    /məʔ¹/
    Suzhou /vəʔ³/
    /məʔ³/
    Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
    Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
    Hui Shexian /me²²/
    Tunxi /mə¹¹/
    /uə¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
    Xiangtan /u²⁴/
    Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
    Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
    Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
    Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
    Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /but̚⁵/
    /miʔ⁵/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uʔ⁵/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /u²⁴/
    /o²⁴/
    Shantou (Teochew) /mueʔ⁵/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /vut̚³/
    /mi³³/

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (4)
    Final () (60)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division () III
    Fanqie
    Baxter mjut
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /mɨut̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /miut̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /miuət̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /mut̚/
    Li
    Rong
    /miuət̚/
    Wang
    Li
    /mĭuət̚/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /mi̯uət̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    mat6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ mjut ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*C.mut/
    English thing

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13218
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    1
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*mɯd/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. thing, matter
        ―    ―  object
        ―  dòng  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
    2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
    3. substance, content
    4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
    5. to choose, to select
    6. to seek, to look for
        ―    ―  to seek out, to scout out
    7. (Teochew) to do
      家己 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
    8. Alternative form of
    9. (Southern Min) Alternative form of (what)

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (to do):

    Compounds[edit]

    Descendants[edit]

    Sino-Xenic ():
    • Vietnamese: vật ()

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    もの
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mo2no2⟨mono2/mono/

    From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mənə.

    Alternative forms[edit]

    • (informal) (もん) (mon)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (もの) (mono

    1. thing (concrete, tangible)
      Synonym: (slang) (butsu)
      1. (law) a corporeal object
        • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
          この(ほう)(りつ)において「(もの)」とは、(ゆう)(たい)(ぶつ)をいう。
          Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
          The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
    See also[edit]
    • (koto, thing, abstract, intangible)

    Suffix[edit]

    (もの) or (モノ) (-mono

    1. story, genre (type of story)
      密室(みっしつ)モノ
      misshitsu-mono
      locked room story
      (たん)(てい)もののドラマ
      tantei-mono no dorama
      detective drama
      (ぼう)(けん)ものです。
      Bōken-mono desu.
      It is an adventure story.

    Prefix[edit]

    (もの) (mono-

    1. (non-productive, with adjectives) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Derived terms[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    /mono//mon/

    Shift from mono above.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (もん) (mon

    1. (informal) Alternative form of (mono, thing)

    Etymology 3[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    ぶつ
    Grade: 3
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese (MC mjut). Compare Hokkien (bu̍t).

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (ぶつ) or (ブツ) (butsuぶつ (butu)?

    1. (slang) thing
      Synonym: (mono)

    Affix[edit]

    (ぶつ) (butsuぶつ (butu)?

    1. thing

    References[edit]

    1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese (MC mjut).

    Historical Readings
    Dongguk Jeongun Reading
    Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 무ᇙ〮 (Yale: mwúlq)
    Middle Korean
    Text Eumhun
    Gloss (hun) Reading
    Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2] (Yale: kàs) 믈〮 (Yale: múl)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    (eumhun 물건(物件) (mulgeon mul))

    1. Hanja form? of (thing; stuff).

    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

    Kunigami[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (むぬー) (munū

    1. thing

    Miyako[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (むぬ) (munu

    1. thing

    Okinawan[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (むぬ) or (むん) (munu or mun

    1. thing

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Việt readings: vật
    : Nôm readings: vật

    1. chữ Hán form of vật (item; object; thing).

    Yaeyama[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (むぬ) (munu

    1. thing

    Yonaguni[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (むぬ) (munu

    1. thing